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A Babel of startups

A startup support program in Santiago, Chile, is attracting entrepreneurs from around the world

Reap what you sow

With ambitions to quadruple capital invested, São Paulo investment fund backs 20 innovative companies

Hotter and drier cities

Modeling indicates temperatures will rise and rainfall will be halved in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Santos by the end of the century

José Antonio Marengo Orsini: A time of uncertainty

Climatologist says society can perceive climate change but has difficulty adopting adaptive measures

Before memory loss

Psychiatric problems may be the first signs of Alzheimer’s disease

Understanding extreme storms

Some of the strongest and most devastating storms on the planet are formed in a wide strip of the Pampas region in the north of Argentina

Dutch court orders government to cut greenhouse gases

An appeals court in the Netherlands ruled that the government must accelerate its plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

The first colossuses in the Cosmos

Two recent findings, however, suggest that some colossal systems already existed at 13.8 billion years ago

Evidence that Da Vinci had strabismus

The Mona Lisa painter had strabismus and may have known how to use it to his advantage

China closing in on the USA

US$254 billion was the approximate value invested in R&D activities by China in 2017

The gregarious habits of an herbivorous reptile

Researchers from the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul found an assemblage of fossils from at least six different Dinodontosaurus individuals

Potential sylvatic cycle of Zika in Brazil

Brazilian researchers have identified the Zika virus in the carcasses of monkeys found in the interior of São Paulo State and in Minas Gerais

Online tool tries to identify fake news

Researchers are developing a tool for verifying whether articles shared on the internet or through instant messaging apps are real or fake

The origin of chocolate and camouflaged fungus

Artifacts that belonged to native Americans between 5,300 and 2,100 years ago hold the earliest evidence of the domestication and use of cacao

Homage to Henrietta Lacks and her cells

Johns Hopkins University, USA, is to name a new ethics research building in honor of Henrietta Lacks

Hope for the Atlantic Forest

The Atlantic Forest covers 28% of the area it occupied before European colonization

Young adults

Students, workers, and those who neither study nor work

Controversial list

Sectors of China's scientific community have criticized the government's proposal to create a national blacklist of poor-quality academic journals

Fraud casts a shadow over stem cell research

The National Institutes of Health has instructed researchers to temporarily suspend stem cell therapy trials in heart failure patients

The weight of Justice

Researchers debate whether scientific misconduct should be treated as a crime

Advances in Alzheimer’s research

Magnetic circles

LED light strips, a cylindrical magnet, and a thin film of ferrofluid is the recipe for the diffraction effect in which the colored lights form circles

From litter to literature

After spending his childhood working in a landfill, Dorival dos Santos Filho concludes his doctorate in linguistics

Showcasing yourself as a scientist

Market analysis can help researchers create a strong academic résumé, increasing research opportunities

In order to understand Brazilian populations

Francisco Salzano bolstered genetic research of the country’s human populations

Science pioneer

Warwick Kerr trained teams and directed research institutions, and was always attentive to the use of scientific knowledge

Paths of reconstruction

UNESCO specialists will help Brazil rebuild the São Cristóvão Palace using modern security techniques

In memoriam

The National Museum's Historical Archives, which were consumed by the fire, will be reconstituted based on records made over the years on a variety of media

The hidden lives of museum collections

Preservation of museum collections involves complex work and multidisciplinary teams

Brother in the North

Emílio Goeldi Museum of Pará reaches 152^nd anniversary with 4.5 million items preserved, but few protected